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Gilgamesh on 17 March 2010
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Soriku said:
Gilgamesh said:

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Who thought that, obviously it was going to sell like hot cakes and it's a new different Mario game for the Wii, unlike Zelda and SMG2, which will be sequels. NSMB did wonders for the DS so obviously it was going to make just as much of an impact on the Wii. I'm not saying Zelda or SMG2 are not going to sell, both will sell extremely well, but it's not so much of a hardware pusher. Why would someone buy a Wii for those games when they can already buy a Wii now and get SMG1 and Zelda Twilight Princess right now?


First of all, Zelda TP was a port and doesn't compare to Zelda Wii. It's obvious it'll push HW.

Second, you could say the same thing for many games...why buy a PS3/360 for CoD MW2 when you could already buy one for MW1 and other shooters? But MW2 still pushed HW.

Why buy a DS for DQ VI when you could have already bought one for DQ IX? DQ VI still provided a 20k+ boost for the DS.

The same thing for MH and the PSP.

The same thing for the Wii and games like Wii Fit Plus/Wii Sports Resort.

The PS3 will also get a boost for Yakuza 4 next week in Japan.

This argument is rarely correct. SMG2 WILL push HW and so will Zelda Wii. I'll make a bet with you if you want.

MW2 boost was mostly with the X360 and that's because it was bundled around the holidays, and not to mention it set the record for most software sold in a week so obviously you'll see a bump. PS3 sales went up 26% but it's hard to say if most of that came from the holiday boost or MW2.

Okay let's compare both hardware sales for the DS with DQIX and VI in Japan only. The week before DQIX released the DS sold 55K in Japan and then when DQIX released it sold 141K, that's a 86K increase in just Japan or a 154% increase. Now the previous week that DQVI released the DS sold 51K and when DQVI came out the DS sold 72K for that week, so that's a 21K increase or a 41% increase. That's quite the difference.

What I'm trying to say if sure theres always going to be that first initial boost for any game that sells a lot but it takes a certain game (usually not sequels) to keep the hardware sales up like NSMB did for the Wii for example, it'll have to be a HUGE improvement to the first game.

@Kenology, I know what you said, and I asked who thought that NSMB wasn't going to move hardware, you say ALL of Sony and Microsoft fans said it wasn't yet I don't really recall anyone saying that? Like I said why wouldn't it, it's a very new type of Mario game for the Wii and it's nothing like Galaxy or Kart, maybe a bit like Paper Mario.